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ONE HUNDRED 
AND FIFTIETH 
ANNIVERSARY 



Cohasset, Massachusetts 

Nineteen Hundred Ti^enty-One 



COMMEMORATION 



OF THE 



One Hundred and Fiftieth 
Anniversary 



OF THE 



Independent Government of the 
Town of Cohasset 



July Fourth and Eighth to Eleventh 



1921 i 




1922 

Published by the Pageant Committee 
Cohasset, Mass. 




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FOREWORD 

Cohasset was originally a part of Hingham and in 
1717 was made a precinct, but as such, was still under 
the government of Hingham. After a long contest, the 
legislative bodies of the province, on April 26, 1770, incorpo- 
rated it as a district, which action set it free from Hingham 
and virtually launched it on its career as a town. It was 
called a district because it joined with neighboring towns 
in choosing a representative. In 1786 it became a town 
by a general act of the Legislature. 

As It was impracticable to suitably commemorate 
this anniversary upon its exact date (April 26, 1920) the 
observance was deferred until the following year and the 
summer season was chosen as most convenient. The Town 
made an appropriation for it at the Annual Town Meeting 
in 1921, but most of the cost was generously provided by 
private subscription. 

The celebration consisted of three events: 

I. July Fourth. Parade with several historical floats, 
band concert and historical and patriotic addresses on the 
Common. 

II. Sunday, July 10. Masonic service in the First 
Parish Church, under the auspices of Konohassett Lodge, 
A.F. and A.M. 

III. The Pageant of Cohasset, produced upon the 
shores of Little Harbor, by three hundred and eighty-three 
Cohasset people, under the direction of Joseph Lindon Smith, 
pageant master. 

Two performances were given, July 8 and July il. 

The participants in the historical parts of the pageant 
were very largely chosen from posterity of the early settlers 
of the town, and in many cases particular characters were 
represented by direct descendants. The use of the grounds 
and the beautiful landscape setting were due to the 
generosity of Mr. Charles W. Gammons. 



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INTRODUCTION 

Cohasset (or in the Indian tongue, "Quonahassit") 
had a long history before white men came here. We know 
the Indians by very indirect evidence — an occasional arrow- 
head of glistening white quartz plowed up by the farmer 
or perhaps a stone axe or a pestle for grinding corn. These 
tell the story of a race that has disappeared, but whose life 
in this locality covered a far longer period than our own. 

Fascinating as is the field of conjecture about Indian 
life, our interest quickens when Capt. John Smith enters 
the scene. With eight men he came into Cohasset Harbor 
in the summer of 1614 and was the first white man to set 
foot upon our shore. The account of this visit is found in 
Smith's own writings. (See his "Generall Historic.") As 
the first European to come here, John Smith was the 
impersonation of manifest destiny; for these rocky shores, 
these deep forests and these sunny hillsides were to be 
redeemed for higher uses than those of hunting grounds for 
wandering tribes of Indians. 

Passing over a half century, we see Cohasset as an 
outlying domain of Hingham, its salt marshes furnishing 
food for the cattle and its dismal forests broken by an 
occasional clearing occupied by the cabin of some adven- 
turous settler. Little by little a hardy race grew up, 
determined to subdue the forest and to eke out an existence 
from almost impossible rocky hillsides. The old deeds 
described the land as so many acres of "land and rocks," 
but curiously as the wheel of time has turned, the rocks have 
now become more valuable than the land as sites for 
residences and as beauty spots of fine estates. 

Cohasset was a precinct of Hingham from 1717 until 
1770 and as such was a part of Hingham and governed by it. 
On April 26, 1770, after nearly twenty years of ineffectual 
agitation the legislative bodies of the Province enacted a law 
incorporating Cohasset into a District. This act set it free 
from Hingham and gave it a government of its own. This 
is what we celebrate today. In the year 1786, the Legislature 
passed a general act that all districts should be towns. 

The settlers did not long depend entirely upon the fruit 
of the soil, but wisely turned their efforts to the more 



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productive results from the sea. Supplying first their own 
needs, they later extended their voyages to the "Grand 
Banks" and in the half century following the Revolution, 
extensive cod fisheries were maintained. By 1840 the 
mackerel fisheries had supplanted these and the voyages 
were to the "Georges" and along shore. 

The old wharves and weather-beaten buildings used 
a half century ago are quaint and interesting. We can muse 
in fancy about these mouldering structures and picture to 
ourselves the scene when half a hundred fishing vessels 
sailed from Cohasset and were continually refitting for new 
voyages or bringing in their fares of mackerel to be packed 
upon these very wharves. Then it was that the ship- 
carpenter's adze and the caulker's mallet made merry music 
among these scenes of activity, for many a vessel built of 
the timber of Cohasset forests was launched here to swell 
the fishing fleet. Boys at an early age commonly went on 
fishing voyages and quickly learned to love the life and 
share its dangers. Many an ambitious lad impelled by the 
irresistible lure of the far horizon, ran away to sea to mingle 
with that great world of adventure. 

The experiences of these fishing voyages led many men 
to further promotion. Having become experienced navi- 
gators, they were sought for positions of deep sea captains 
and sailed large vessels with valuable cargoes to all important 
ports of the world. These men were as familiar with 
"Frisco," Liverpool and Calcutta as with the streets of 
Boston; while Smyrna, Singapore and the China Sea were 
household words with their families at home. 

These were men of strong character, dignity and marked 
ability and any town may well be proud to have had 
the influence of such men. With manhood of such fibre 
as this, is it any wonder that Cohasset men have sprung to 
instant action in life-saving upon this dangerous rocky 
coast.'' Inured to hardship and danger, Cohasset men 
throughout five wars have always hastened to their countr\''s 
defense and upon sea and land have manifested the highest 
degree of patriotism and braver}-. 

With such a history and with such antecedents, let us 
go forward, mindful of the challenge of the past and true to 

its inspiration. —Oliver H. Howe. 



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JULY FOURTH 

Order of Procession 

Chief Marshal and Aids, mounted 
Thomas L. Bates, Chief of Police and Chief Marshal 
Thomas Powers, Frank P. Ayres, Aids 
Platoon of Police 
Band 
George H. Mealy, Post No. ii8, American Legion 
Selectmen of Cohasset 
Henry Bryant, Post No. 98 
Only three members of this Post are now living in 
Cohasset, and these were all present: 

George M. Adams, Willie F. Thayer and Thomas Ward 
Speakers of the Day 
Volunteer Veteran Fire Association 
Fire Department of Cohasset 

Historical Floats: 

I. Victorious Hosts of Liberty. 

Entered by Mt. Hope Improvement Association, 
North Scituate. Awarded first prize. 

11. Colonial Days. 

Entered by Miss Celia St. John, Mrs. Frank E. 
Salvador, Miss Henrietta Valine. Awarded 
second prize. 

III. Dark Days. Awarded third prize. 

IV. Social Service. Awarded fourth prize. 
V. Canning Club. Awarded fifth prize. 

ADDRESSES ON THE COMMON, JULY FOURTH 

Mr. Mapes 
Fellow Citizens of Cohasset, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

It affords me great pleasure to act as chairman of 
this committee. It also affords an equal honor to introduce 
your speakers. Your committee has asked me to preside 



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over the spoken part of the program which they have 
arranged to commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth 
anniversary of the incorporation of Cohasset as a town. 
You may have read in the press recently that T was scheduled 
to make an address. That was incorrect. My principal 
duty and pleasure is to welcome you all on behalf of the 
Town of Cohasset, and I assure you all that that welcome 
is heartily extended. 

For about three score years, Cohasset was a precinct 
of Hingham. After that period it was incorporated into a 
district in 1770, since which time it has conducted its own 
affairs and in recent years it has been my good fortune to 
hold an official position in the town which has enabled me 
to search its records from the time it was a town to the 
present day. Those records are interesting, instructive 
and amusing, varying from town meeting votes penalizing 
citizens of Cohasset for allowing geese to stray on the 
highways to a town meeting vote allowing citizens abutting 
on the roadway to build that roadway by working out their 
taxes. 

I could dwell at length on the historical records which 
I have found in the Town Hall on the business transactions 
of your town and the many problems that have confronted 
its selectmen since its incorporation. I will simply say 
that the manner in which they have met those situations 
and complications shows today in the beautiful Town of 
Cohasset, and it is an incentive to your present Board to 
maintain and keep up this town in the way our forefathers 
handed it to us. 

Cohasset has always been honored by citizens well 
skilled in arts and sciences of every nature. The committee 
have today asked me to introduce to you as your first 
speaker Mr. Edward Nichols of Cohasset who will read an 
original poem written for the occasion and it gives me great 
pleasure to introduce to you Mr. Edward Nichols. 

Mr. Nichols 

Mr. Chairman and Citizens of Cohasset: 

I feel I am honored in being given a small part in this 
program. I can assure you it is going to be an interesting 




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program and in furtherance of that assurance I will get 
what is to me the most uninteresting part out of the way 
as quickly as possible, so with your permission I will read 
a few lines which I put together for the occasion. 

COHASSET, 1770-1920 

"Quonahassit, " as John Smith found thee, 

Long and rocky, thy hills between. 
What are the memories with which we surround thee, 

Gathered here on the village green? 
What are the treasures of song and story 

Out of the past to the present day? 
What is the radiance, what is the glory; 

Shedding round us its teeming ray? 
Look at the flag that is billowing o'er us. 

Loved and rev'renced by old and young; 
Think as the ages pass before us, 

We were a town e'er its folds were flung. 
Long e'er Lexington's musket rattle 

Startled the patriots' hopes and fears, 
Long before Concord or Bunker Hill's battle. 

Town for a hundred and fifty }"ears. 

This be our tale, then, this be our story; 

Not of the wars which were bravely fought, 
Not of the camp or the battlefield gory. 

Pathway of freedom so dearly bought. 
Closing our ears to the din of the battle. 

Out of the past, to our eyes unseen, 
We hear the lowing of peaceful cattle 

On "Coneyhassett's" meadows green. 
The Hingham fathers our green fields cherished. 

To feed the flocks of the mother town; 
And but for these had the cattle perished, 

When Hingham's pastures were sere and brown. 
And so our lands were in turn awarded 

To each of the hardy pioneers, 
And so our township stands recorded 

For full a hundred and fiftv years. 



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First and Second and Third Division; 

Little meaning these words convey; 
Yet 'twas the primal wise decision 

Which set our town where it stands today. 
Out of the heart of the mother, Hingham. 

Came a hopeful, courageous band; 
Under the homespun, under the gingham, 

Beat stout hearts for the work in hand. 
Was there a bit of homeward yearning.^ 

Was there a lingering look behind? 
Who shall say.^ — for the swift years, turning, 

Leave no traces for us to find. 
Axe to the forest, plow to the tillage, 

Little of time for despair or tears; 
So they fashioned our peaceful village, 

Work of a hundred and fifty years. 

Honor here to the fathers paying, 

We are standing on holy sod. 
On this spot where our feet are straying, 

Stood the Temple they reared to God. 
Walls four square, like the sturdy yeoman. 

Roof four square to the winds of Heaven, 
Benches straight for the men and women, 

Nought of comfort's distracting leaven; 
So they worshipped as e'en they furrowed, 

Straight to the line neither left nor right, 
Help and strength from the hills they borrowed, 

Toiling on in their faith and might. 
So they laid here the firm foundation, 

Faith in God in its walls and piers. 
As was the town, so we find the nation. 

After a hundred and fifty years. 

Look at our seal, of our guest's devising;* 

What do its vivid quarterings tell? 
We see the waves and the storm-cloud rising, 

The dash of foam and the ceaseless swell. 



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We see in mem'ry the doomed ship driving, 

We hear the crash of the broken spars, 
The shrieks of terror, the hull's dread riving, 

The battered wreck 'neath the dull cold stars. 
Or, haply, showing a fairer lining. 

We see a billowing cloud of white. 
Tapering spars 'neath the tropics shining, 

In Rio's River or Biscay's Bight. 
Many have traversed the deep seas over, — 

Brave of spirit and void of fears; 
Worthy stock of the old sea rover. 

Sailing a hundred and fifty years. 

Look once more, you may see another. 

Beating in by the headland white. 
In from the Banks, or the drift and smother 

Of Bay Chaleur, or Tracadie bright. 
Is it the Zylph or the Georgiana, 

Maggie Ciimmings or Katie Hall?. 
Of what trade does she fly the banner, 

Fisherman, packet or coaster tallf 
'Tis but the type of our seaward roaming, 

Standing in from beyond the "light," 
Wings as white as the seagull's, homing 

Past White Head to the harbor bright. 
'Tis but the type of our deep sea faring, 

Fraught with the mariner's hopes and fears. 
Seaman's courage and seaman's daring. 

This for a hundred and fifty years. 

Look you now where the green turf rounding 

Joins the water with sandy edge; 
There you could hear, in the old time, pounding. 

The sound of hammers, the shock of sledge. 
There on the shore lies the mighty timber. 

Ready to form the keel so true; 
There, the ribs and the planking limber, 

Joined their strength as the good ship grew. 



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Broad of beam to resist the gale, 

Beating off from the dread "lee shore," 
Tall of spars for the spread of the sail. 

Up aloft where the sea birds soar; 
Headed out to the open rain 

Followed by women's prayers and tears, 
These are the visions we see again, 

Back for a hundred and fifty years. 

What shall guide her upon her way? 

What shall beacon her back to the town? 
Look, where the lofty watch-tower gray 

Shines at eve when the sun goes down. 
Granite shaft on a granite bed. 

Sturdy pillar of fire by night, 
Sentinel of our ledges dread. 

Stands the tower of Minots Light. 
Guardian grim of the rock-bound coast. 

Flashing seaward its one-four-three, 
Little wonder that we should boast, 

Minots Light, of our faith in thee. 
You have weathered a hundred gales. 

Strong and lasting your shaft appears; 
Though the tempest may rend the sails, 

You shall stand for a hundred years. 

Look again at the seal I mention.* 

Over the wave and the rolling sky 
Stand three buildings with clear intention 

Civic duties typify. 
School house, town house, and church are taken. 

For knowledge, order and faith they stand. 
These are the bulwarks firm, unshaken. 

Underlying our native land. 
Backward, time, in thy flight turn slowly, 

Make us children a little while. 
Show us again the schoolroom lowly, 

Bench and form and desk and aisle. 
Children with "shiny morning faces," 

Yet undimmed by their cares or tears. 
Generations have filled their places, 

Over and over, these hundred years. 



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Who can say in the turn of time 

Waiting not for man's slow paces, 
Who of these, in their manhood's prime, 

May have filled our highest places? 
Will to serve and not to rule, 

Hearts aglow with a righteous zeal, 
Bearing "the honor of the school" 

Into service of Commonweal; 
Be that service great or small, 

Fraught with danger or held with ease, 
Whether serving our nation's call, 

Or our brothers beyond the seas, 
Whether death be the meed and end. 

Crowned with glory or bathed with tears. 
Proud are we of our manhood's trend, 

Aye, for a hundred and fifty years. 

Knowledge, order and faith we seek: 

Knowledge, heeding to duty's call, 
Order, daring the truth to speak. 

Faith in God, who enfolds us all, 
Faith that the right shall e'er succeed, 

Crumbling thrones, if so be it must. 
Shattering idols of power and greed 

Into atoms of common dust. 
You, who may in your tasks each day 

Set this seal of the Town's decision, 
'Tis to you that we turn to say: 

"Keep the faith; as you hold the vision." 
As they drew, in the days of old. 

Help and strength from their toils and tears, 
May we gather to have and hold 

Strength from these hundred and fifty years. 

Edward Nichols. 




Seal of the Town of Cohasset above referred to 



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Mr. Mapes 

The Town of Cohasset has sent a number of its citizens 
to the Legislature in the last one hundred and fifty years. 
Again referring to the old records in your Town Hall in 
past years I find them instructing their representative to 
vote for a railroad from Hull to South Boston. I could not 
find whether it was designed to go across Boston Harbor 
or what the route was. However, there are three of your 
representatives living today and the committee have 
naturally chosen the youngest and most able, and it gives 
me pleasure to introduce to you Representative Walter 
Shuebruk. 

Mr. Shuebruk 

Mr. Chairman afid Fellow Citizens: 

It would not be entirely easy for me to explain my 
presence on this platform this afternoon because I realize 
that the opportunity has been extended to me not because 
of anything that I have ever done or anything that I have 
ever said, but solely because I have sought and by your 
suffrage have received political office and I also realize 
that in these days of stress and storm in our civil, political, 
industrial and financial world, politics and politicians are 
about as welcome as whooping cough at a birthday party. 
And I suppose that that situation exists because in the 
popular mind politicians are commonly regarded as men 
who promise much and who deliver nothing. And 
undoubtedly some seek office, promising many things which 
they know that they can never deliver, and that of course 
is plain dishonesty, but by far the greater number of the 
promises made by politicians to the people are not made 
dishonestly but because of an entirely mistaken idea as to 
what law and law-makers can do. The promises of the 
politicians based on this fundamental error as 'to what 
laws and law-makers can do are no more dishonest than 
is our belief that the law and law-makers can give us every 
benefit. 

To be sure, it is written in our Constitution that it was 
enacted to the end that this may be a Government of laws 
and not of men and it is no exaggeration to say that that 



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principle properly interpreted stands as the foundation of 
the corner-stone of all our political rights. It was a declara- 
tion not only that all men are created free and equal, that 
all men are subject toone and the same law, but it tore 
from the civil and political fabric of the ages the then 
accepted doctrine that the king can do no wrong. But it 
was not intended to carry with it the equally absurd doctrine 
that the Government can do no wrong and it was not 
intended to establish the doctrine that everything can be 
done by the laws of a Government and that nothing can be 
done or expected from the people who compose that Govern- 
ment. And yet during the nearly one hundred and fifty 
years since it was written into our Constitution there has 
gradually developed a misunderstanding and perversion of 
that great principle until today we are all too willing to 
be satisfied with the lazy belief that every evil and every 
inconvenience, civil, political and moral, can be cured by a 
new law or by an amendment to some existing law, and 
we have piled law upon law and regulation upon regulation 
until today we have more State and Federal laws than 
all the rest of the world put together. 

Laws and regulations are all right on the books designed 
not merely to teach and to encourage patriotism but to 
compel it, and the day may soon be here when every boy 
from five to ninety-five will be obliged by governmental reg- 
ulation to buy and to use his quota of Fourth of July fire- 
crackers and torpedoes. Perhaps it may be looked upon as 
a gradual and painless transition to a state of socialism and 
that we are merely preparing the ground for a Government 
which will do all, a Government which will undertake to 
make the dull bright, the idle diligent, and which will endow 
the improvident with thrift. And yet there is no indication 
that any considerable number of our people are opposed to 
the private ownership of property or that they are heartily 
in favor of extending the powers of Government until we have 
instead of a Government a civilized state, and yet blinding 
ourselves to the real consequences we demand on the one 
hand the preservation of our American institutions and on 
the other we advocate their assumption by the Govern- 
ment, which is wholly inconsistent with those institutions. 




Captain Philip Fox and His Wife 



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If, then, we do believe in the great fundamental prin- 
ciples and institutions of our American Government, the 
birth of which we are celebrating today, let us abandon this 
misconception of a great principle that the Government can 
do it all and let us remember that no law and no book of 
laws can compel men and women to be honest, to be tem- 
perate, industrious, patriotic or contented. The laws of our 
country can be no better than the people who make them, 
no better than the people who are expected to enforce and 
to obey them. And bearing in mind the wisdom contained 
in that doctrine of Thomas Jefferson that that country is 
governed best which is governed least, let us remember 
that not from statute law alone but mainly from ourselves 
we must seek peace, prosperity and the pursuit of happiness. 

Mr. Mapes 

Again referring to your ancient records, it may not be 
known to all that your early town meetings were held in 
yonder (Unitarian) church before the Town Hall was built. 
The committee feel that on an occasion of this kind we 
should hear from the clergy and it gives me great pleasure 
to introduce as the next speaker the Rev. Father Daniel J. 
Carney of St. Anthony's Parish. 

Rev. Father Carney 
Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: 

We are apt on an occasion like the Fourth of July to 
have our minds distracted by the fire-cracker and the lire- 
works and the other noises that are associated with this 
holiday. But, my dear fellow citizens, we must always try 
to revive the lesson of Fourth of July, and that lesson should 
pervade our minds and hearts and our souls because if 
there is one lesson today that we need to rehearse in the 
midst of the growing isms of the country it is the lesson of 
patriotism. As your representative has very well said, you 
can formulate all the laws that can be written by pen and 
put them on the statute books either of the State or the 
country, but all those laws together or singly will never 
impose patriotism on anybody. Patriotism, my dear fellow 



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citizens, is not something that comes from without, it is 
not something that is imposed upon us, but patriotism is 
something that comes from within. Patriotism is something 
that comes from the heart and manifests itself when the time 
comes to manifest our true patriotism, and it is well for us 
on an occasion like the Fourth of July to rehearse the lesson 
of patriotism. And there are Fourths of July in the history 
of this country that have been made memorable from 
July 4, 1789, down to this present Fourth of July, 1921. 
The Fourth of July in 1789 was made memorable right 
here in the great State of Massachusetts when the 
Declaration of Independence was read for the first time 
upon the green at Lexington, whence those farmers had 
gone forth in the year 1776 and fired the first shot that was 
heard round the world, and those that survived came 
back in the year 1789, and what joy pervaded the hearts 
of those people when they saw our great banner of the 
red, white and blue first thrown to the breezes of the 
heavens. And, my dear fellow citizens, remember this, 
that that banner was never placed in the heavens in the 
year 1789 without sacrifice. And if you want to know what 
sacrifice was made for that flag and the principles that that 
flag represented, then read the Annals and read the Archives 
of the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution. 

There was another memorable Fourth of July in the 
year 1865. There had been a blot on the true independence 
of America in 1861, and that blot was the blot of slavery 
and it was inconsistent with the independence that was 
proclaimed in 1789 to have that bolt upon the escutcheon of 
America. And therefore it was that men went forth, of 
whom we have a remnant here today. In '61 they went 
forth to blot off that spot from the escutcheon of America 
and it was on July the Fourth, 1865, that throughout the 
length and breadth of this great country of ours there was 
proclaimed freedom for everybody, irrespective of color, 
race or creed. And that Declaration upon that day of 
universal freedom was not made without sacrifice. And the 
sacrifice was the sacrifice of those that went into the great 
battles from '61 to '65 and still kept our banner of the red, 
white and blue floating in the heavens. If you want to 



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know what sacrifices were made, read the Chronicles and 
read the Archives of the Grand Army of the RepubHc. 

There was another notable Fourth of July in the year 
1899, and it was on that day that the banner of America 
went beyond her shores and for the first time rose after a 
successful war in Porto Rico and Cuba and the Philippine 
Islands, and the principles of liberty were brought outside 
the shores of America and planted on foreign shores. That 
was not without sacrifice, and if your want to know what 
sacrifices were made you can read the Chronicles and the 
deeds and the History of the Veterans of the Spanish War. 

This, my dear fellow citizens. Is also a notable Fourth 
of July. In the year 1921 there have come back here the 
boys who went abroad, back .again to America, and in their 
work in foreign fields they have brought the principles 
represented by the Stars and Stripes of America. They faced 
autocracy and they brought autocracy down and leveled 
it to the earth. And this Fourth of July we exult in those 
principles of the red, white and blue that are spread not only 
throughout America, throughout Porto Rico and Cuba 
and the Philippines, but principles that are spread through- 
out the length and breadth of the world, and If there Is a 
democracy to finally come to the countries of Europe, a 
true democracy, it is because of the presence of our boys on 
foreign shores that brought them the spirit of American 
democracy. And if you want to know what sacrifices 
that messenger brought then read the Chronicles and read 
the history of the American Legion. 

Dear fellow citizens, we today are exulting In all the 
fruits of those sacrifices that have been made from 1789 
down to this year of 192 1 and we would be false to their 
memory, to the memories of those that made those sacrifices, 
we would be false to the principles represented by the 
Stars and Stripes of America and we would be false to our- 
selves if we did not have In our hearts and minds and souls 
that real deep, true patriotism that should abide in the 
heart and in the soul and In the mind of every true American. 
What is Americanism? Americanism is a loyalty, a fidelity 
to those principles that are contained in the Declaration 
of Independence, and we can measure our Americanism 



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only according to those principles, and if our Americanism 
does not measure up to those principles then we have no 
true Americanism and we have no true patriotism. Those 
were the principles upon which this Government was 
founded and those principles must go on, and if there is any 
element in this country that is opposed to those principles, 
that is inimical to the true patriotism of America it is our 
duty as true Americans to see to it that those enemies of 
our country make no progress whatsoever in our midst. 
Let us always be true, loyal Americans and we can be true 
and loyal Americans by giving to America always the finest 
thoughts of our minds, the deepest love of our hearts and the 
highest aspirations of our souls. America today is going 
onward and upward among the nations of the world. She 
is not satisfied with the place that she has occupied up to 
this time. She wants to develop and develop into the 
greatest nation in the world and we can do that by being 
true to all those principles of Americanism that are taught 
to us by the principles represented by the Stars and Stripes 
of America. 

It was in 1907 that I had occasion to go through most 
of the countries of Europe and to visit the largest seaports 
of the European countries and to my amazement as I 
traveled through all those different foreign countries I was 
unable to see the banner of America on any one ship in any 
of the harbors of those foreign countries. There you could 
pick out the flags of the smallest and most insignificant 
nations in the world but you looked in vain for the flag of 
America and I say that that was a reflection upon America. 
In all my travels of nearly six months there were just two 
occasions when I saw the American flag in foreign lands, 
and that happened to be on consulates and embassies. 
But now our flag can be seen in the harbors of those great 
nations of Europe. Today, through the foresight of men to 
whom has been entrusted the best interests of America 
the flag of America is going into all foreign lands. Through 
her merchant marine that flag is sailing into the greatest 
harbors of the world today. And, fellow citizens, it should 
be the pride of our Americanism to see that flag not simply 
in the harbors of America but in the harbors of the whole 



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world and it should be our ambition as Americans to be 
sooner or later not the mistress of the seas but the master 
of the seas. And there is no reason why we shouldn't. We 
have the wealth, we have the ability and we have the 
purpose and we have the aspiration of heart and mind and 
soul to accomplish that great work which will make America 
the greatest country in the world. And they talk — some 
talk in America today about disarmament. It will be an 
unfortunate day for America when we disarm. It will be 
an unfortunate day for America when we have a navy less 
than any other nation in the world, and why? "Oh," 
the advocates of disarmament say, "let us have peace. 
Let us have contentment and let us have no more war." 
Fellow citizens, that is an impossibility. You are Christian 
people and I know that you believe in the prophecy of the 
Master who tells us that when He will come one day to 
destroy the world He prophesied that there would be wars 
and rumors of wars as a prelude to that day or date of the 
last day of the world, and I say there will be wars, and there 
will be wars as long as there is any passion in any one 
individual here. What is a nation but an aggregation of 
individuals. And take the individual — when you have a 
perfect individual you have a perfect nation, and when 
you have a perfect nation there will be no war and no need 
of armament. But as long as we are in this world we will 
never have a really perfect individual in heart, mind and 
soul. As long as we are in the world the individual will be 
pugnacious and warlike in his own sphere. Cross him and 
if he is any kind of a man he will always show his pugnacity 
and his warlike spirit because that is in his heart and in 
his soul and you cannot keep it down. It is the same way 
with the nation. It is an aggregation of individuals and the 
nation has the same passions that the individual has 
and therefore there is no possibility, and there should be 
no possibility of disarmament in this country of ours, but 
we should go on and on until we have the greatest navy 
in the world in order to protect our greatest merchant 
marine of the world. That is Americanism and that should 
be our aspiration because as Americans we should look 
always to the future, and rehearse on an occasion of this 



22 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

kind our Fourth of July loyalty and fidelity to the Stars and 
Stripes. 

Let us remember, therefore, that we must learn this 
lesson of patriotism today and let us all express that 
patriotism in those few words of the poet when he said: 

Here is our love to thee, flag of the free 

Here is our love to thee, flag of the tried and true 

Here is our love to thy flowing stripes and thy stars on 

a field of blue 
Native or foreign, we are children of the land over 

which you fly. 
Native or foreign, we love the land for which it is sweet 

to die. 

Mr. Mapes 

Education is the bulwark of democracy. Education In 
Cohasset is shown also on your old records. It shows today 
on your central schoolhouse. It shows today in your school 
committee and it is with great pleasure that I introduce 
to you as the next speaker the Chairman of the School 
Committee, the Rev. Fred V. Stanley. 

Mr. Stanley 

Mr. Chairman, Fellow Citizens: 

It is especially fitting that we should, by the ringing 
of bells, public parade, general gathering, stirring words 
and martial music, observe this day which has been set 
apart to commemorate the independence of our country 
and to pledge ourselves anew to the love and loyalty to 
that country, to strive by whatever means we can to foster 
and increase the spirit of patriotism and liberty which 
alone exalt a nation. It is very popular just now to assume 
that no one can be really patriotic unless he is prepared 
to find fault with everything that America is and everything 
that America does. The air Is full of voices criticizing and 
denouncing our most cherished institutions and ideals. 
But the very heart of a real patriotism is faith in one's 
country. Not a blind. Incredulous faith, not a deliberate 
shutting of the eyes against the things that menace our 



TOWN OF COHASSET 23 

nation, not an ignoring of the facts that we need to observe, 
but the belief down in the lieart that America's institutions 
and ideals and ways are sound. It is cheap and vulgar to 
brag about our country. We Americans have too often 
been guilty of that oflfense against good manners but I pity 
the citizen of this country who does not feel down in the 
innermost recesses of his heart the deep conviction that this 
is the fairest, the freest and the best country in the world 
and who does not thank God continually that he lives in 
this land. 

When our fathers, to use Lincoln's immortal words, 
brought forth a nation upon this continent, conceived in 
liberty and dedicated to the principles that all men are 
equal, it was regarded by the rest of the world as an experi- 
ment dangerous in the extreme. They sneered at the 
audacious undertaking. Authority heretofore had resided 
in the hands of a very few. The strong ruled and the great 
mass of the people slaved and served and were exploited 
by their rulers. One thought inspired those early founders 
of our nation, the thought that has pervaded all our 
institutions — the central idea of the Declaration of 
Independence or Constitution of this nation, the principle 
that is still the vital principle of our Government, the very 
life of our Government, and that thought was human 
liberty. That is the great heritage which this day of inde- 
pendence commemorates. That is what those gentlemen 
did who attached their signatures to the Declaration 
of Independence, knowing that if they failed to secure the 
fulfillment of their freedom of human liberty for the three 
million people of these United States the extreme likelihood 
was that they would all hang. Through all the changes 
since 1776 that one great ideal of human liberty has been 
the foundation principle of our growth and development as 
a nation. Notwithstanding the measures of political parties 
this great ideal of human liberty has held dominant sway 
and the principles of democracy have not suflfered. 
Independence Day means that every man in this democracy 
is free, that he ought to rejoice in his freedom. He is his 
own master. He can think and work for himself. He is 
himself almost a sovereign. He has a vote and a part in 



24 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTrETH ANNIVERSARY 

the concerns of his Government. No military caste can 
dominate him or despise him or humiliate him or rob him. 
Consequently he is loyal, enthusiastic, eager. And when, 
even against his will, he is called into military service he 
goes as a free man, and all the push, the enthusiasm and the 
energy that have come to him by his democratic heritage 
convert him into an irreproachable soldier when he stands 
face to face with the great enemy whose cause he knows 
to be wrong. We were told how often — how often were 
we told that it was impossible for mechanics and farmers 
and rich men's sons and clerks to go against the trained 
regulars of Germany with any hope of success. They 
would be annihilated. American manhood was too soft 
for such a test as that and yet we saw those clerks, those 
mechanics, those pampered sons and those farmers, trained 
for a few months, throw themselves against the HIndenburg 
line and break it. That is what had been accomplished 
in them by their democratic heritage, and they over- 
whelmed with their on-rushing enthusiasm the remains of 
militarism. 

The ambassador to the Court of St. James to the contrary, 
•our boys donned khaki and went to war In 191 7 not because 
they had to, not to save America, not for any material gain. 
They went to war, to quote the words of Dr. Charles R. 
Brown of Yale, because they could not bear the dishonor 
of standing by while nations which we loved were being bled 
for the sake of principles of justice and liberty that are the 
very soul of our nation. They fought for the cause of 
democracy in all the world, to free the world from the 
menace of military autocracy and to make an end of war 
and the cause for which they fought and bled and died 
might have been fully won had not our national leaders 
repudiated all that our soldiers had achieved. For if ever 
a nation had the God-given opportunity to enter into the 
life of the world that opportunity was ours at the close of 
the World War. Never before in all the history of the world 
had a nation had such an opportunity as was ours then. 
Throughout the world the United States was trusted, 
honored, loved, Icoked to for leadership for a new and better 
world. 



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Our program of justice and brotherhood and a 
League of Peace was welcomed with world-wide joy and 
exultation. And what happened? Our national leaders 
allowed paid interests and partisan controversies to blind 
their vision, defeat the great desire of the people and bring 
disaster to the nations when there might have been a world 
unity and reconstruction and a new era of peace and pros- 
perity and progress and power. 

Our hope for the future of democracy, for the restora- 
tion of our national prestige among the nations and for 
our national security does not depend upon great armaments 
and great navies, but on being true to the fundamental 
principles and ideals that have made us and preserved us a 
nation to this day. The great principle of human liberty, 
the belief that government of the people is the best for all 
concerned, the faith that in the end right is the only might 
and the firm conviction that moral forces, a reputation 
for justice, friendship to all the nations, help to the weaker 
powers, and good will to all the earth are the best security 
for our nation as well as the chief source of its power. We 
cannot repudiate these great principles and ideals and 
survive and we must refuse to be stirred by those whose 
useless fears would lead us to follow the old world 
example of reliance upon force and arms which has been 
proven to be such a miserable failure. War is not necessary 
to preserve virile manhood. Here in our country there is 
no danger of our becoming weaklings if we are true to the 
work that God has given us to do. In devotion to the great 
causes of humanity we will find that which will exercise the 
highest qualities of our manhood and our womanhood and 
when we are fighting again for wrong that confronts the 
community, our state and our nation, when we strive for a 
larger liberty, a more comprehensive and abiding peace for 
every man, woman and child in our nation, and while 
fonder and prouder of our own nation than any other, we 
are still citizens of the world, lovers of humanity, then we 
shall best merit the title of Americans, then we shall best 
get the message of Independence Day, then we shall best 
carry on the work of the fathers, then we shall best measure 
up to out great privilege as the free children of God. 



26 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

Mr. Mapes 
You have listened to citizens of Cohasset and I am 
now going to ask you to listen to an ex-citizen of Cohasset, 
one who has in his mind more of the real history of Cohasset 
than, I think, any one present. A proper introduction of 
him is beyond my feeble ability and I am pleased and 
honored to introduce to you the gentleman who wrote your 
town history, the Rev. E. Victor Bigelow of Andover, 
Mass. 

Rev. Mr. Bigelow 

It Is with sincere pleasure that I speak the congratula- 
lations due to a sturdy town of Massachusetts upon Its 
century and a half of self-government, and the hundred and 
forty-four years of participation in American Independence. 

That Cohasset should break away from the parent town, 
Hingham, was foreordained and written both in the character 
of the settlers and in the natural conditions of the land. 

I. Speaking first of the character of the settlers — they 
were men of conscience, ready to obey the rule of righteous- 
ness, genuine fountains of authority themselves, and thus 
were well fitted to spurn the authority of others when cir- 
cumstances might require it. They were the true sons and 
grandsons of the first Hingham settlers who had come 
out of old England in 1635 for the very purpose of finding 
room for their consciences in a new free country. These 
sons and grandsons began to settle the Cohasset portion of 
Hingham, after the uplands were divided In 1670. When 
they asked to be liberated from the old church in Hingham, 
and to be excused from paying taxes to support the mother 
church, it was for the purpose of having their own church 
and of paying twice as much to support it. 

Rev. Nehemiah Hobart, who was a grandson of the 
first minister of Hingham, was the first settled minister 
of the Cohasset precinct in the year 1720; and we may be 
well assured that the people who heard him preach in the 
first little meetinghouse on this very common, were well 
indoctrinated in the principles of conscience and self-control. 

When therefore after the descendants of the mother 
town had been established in their own precinct with their 



TOWN OF COHASSET 27 

own church and their own public schools for a half century, 
what wonder that they should demand a separation from 
Hingham and should secure in the year 1770 the rights 
of a self-governing municipality. 

2. Not only the character of the people but also the 
geography and conditions of the land foreordained that 
Cohasset should be a separate town. Although the Hingham 
remonstrants insisted that the Cohasset precinct was far 
too small an area to be erected into the dignity of a town, 
the natural endowments of that area provided the necessary 
equipment. 

Here was a good little harbor upon the outer sea, 
better than the harbor of the mother town, and here were 
thousands of acres of good timber and hundreds of acres 
subdued by the plow to produce the food for a town. 

Not only was this little corner of the Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts competent to be a self-sustaining municipal 
unit; but it was also separated so far from the vital center 
of Hingham as to fall away from that center by the gravita- 
tion of nature. The hard-fisted fathers of Hingham were 
resisting the manifest decrees of nature herself when they 
refused to let Cohasset go. 

The rocky and tortuous highway leading five miles 
to the mother town swore eternally the vows of separation, 
and when the Hingham fathers protested that they paid 
for the upkeep of that road the huge sum of twenty-five 
dollars a year the Cohasseters were not squelched. Hard 
as it was to go five miles from the Cohasset precinct by land 
to the town center, it was even harder to go by water from 
this harbor to the harbor at the town center, nearly fifteen 
miles. It was easier to go to Boston than to Hingham. 

The commerce of Cohasset harbor, hundreds of cords 
of wood annually, hundreds of cargoes of fish, and much 
other merchandise, stimulated her self-respect and required 
that she should have independent intercourse with Boston 
and with the other markets of the world. 

For twenty years our brave little community urged 
her plea in the town meetings of Hingham to be set free. 
For twenty years she carried her cause up to the higher 
court of appeal, the Great and General Court of 



28 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

Massachusetts. Led by the sturdy and patriotic Deacon 
Isaac Lincoln, an ancestor of our Abraham Lincoln, she 
endured for twenty years the stubborn refusals of HIngham 
town meetings, and bore the rebuflfs of the General Court 
at Boston where representatives from the parent town 
were always ready to checkmate her. 

But the time came wheu virtue must be rewarded. 
The time came when the accumulated Industries of our 
farms, our grist mills, our two score fishing vessels could no 
longer be resisted and in the year 1770 Cohasset was 
acknowledged and declared to be an Independent munici- 
pality, self-governed, self-respecting and competent. 

Scarcely had Cohasset achieved her Independence of 
HIngham before she felt the tug of all the American colonies 
straining to liberate themselves from the misrule of the 
English government. 

It was not given to Cohasset to be the scene of bloodshed 
like Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill; but we were 
so near as to hear the roar of the cannons that prompted 
the evacuation of Boston harbor and so near that some of 
our young men were participants In that glorious event. 

Three Cohasset boys had been In the Boston Tea 
Party, Jared Joy, James Stoddard and Abraham Tower. 
When after the outbreak at Concord the swarms of militia 
gathered from all the villages within marching distance 
of Boston, our Cohasset company of fifty-six young men 
were there In Roxbury with their hasty equipment under 
Capt. Job Cushing. They had been gathered together 
upon this very green where we now stand, and the minister 
of this dear old meetinghouse marched forth with them as 
far as the old elm tree at the foot of Turkey Hill where he 
gave them at the edge of the town, the benediction of God 
and of men as they set forth, our first instalment in the War 
of the Revolution. 

In this old meetinghouse patriotic appeals were made 
again and again for sending men and money into the common 
cause. It was voted October 7, 1774, "to have a closet built 
in sum proper place In the meeting house for to deposlte the 
District stock of Ammunition In, and the Selectmen to be 
a Committee to see It done." I fancy that the religion of 



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this Town has always been loaded and ready to explode In 
deeds of practical efficiency. 

The Town voted to lay in five hundred bushels of corn, 
and one hundred pounds of powder besides five hundred 
flints for their flintlock guns. 

It was Cohasset harbor that was used as the nearest 
point out of reach of the British ships in Boston harbor where 
a cargo of one hundred barrels of flour were brought by 
water from New York to feed Washington's army during 
the siege of Boston. From this harbor also a revolutionary 
heroine Persis Tower sailed a vessel across the blockaded 
port of Boston to Gloucester in the absence of our men to 
obtain supplies from that port. It was from this harbor 
also that a brave crew went out and captured a British brig 
carrying supplies. There was some undue hilarity over 
the cargo which was chiefly rum; but the bravery of the 
crew was none the less real. 

The official acts of the Town were prompt in all 
measures of patriotism, in appointing the committee of 
correspondence, in sending Deacon Isaac Lincoln to the 
Provincial Congress at Concord, and in levying war taxes. 

When the time came in the year 1776 to declare inde- 
pendence our little Town of Cohasset made the declaration 
twenty days before its issue from the Continental Congress 
at Philadelphia, pledging to support it "with our lives and 
fortunes, if the American Congress should declare the 
United Colonies independent of the Kingdom of Great 
Britain." 

It took lives and fortunes to fulfil this pledge. One 
widow sent five sons into the service. With a population of 
about seven hundred and fifty people, having a taxed 
valuation of estates less than fifty thousand dollars, they 
had to go deeply into debt for the war expenses and they 
sent one hundred and twenty men out of a total one hundred 
and sixty-five into the various forms of service of the great 
War for Independence. 

Our ambassador to Great Britain a few months ago — ■ 
Mr. liarvey — was charged with disloyalty to the American 
spirit in saying that the American people entered the recent 
great European war for the purpose of saving America from 




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the dangers of a German invasion rather than saving her 
European allies; but self-preservation is still a noble principle 
and we are not disloyal to the American spirit when we 
are proud of our Revolutionary heroes who fought, bled 
and died to save their own land; and when we see a com- 
munity like Cohasset where the citizens have struggled and 
have sacrificed to achieve independence either for national 
or for municipal integrity our admiration shall freely flow 

and gladly shall be given our hearty congratulations. 

— E. Victor Bigelow. 

SERVICE IN FIRST PARISH CHURCH 

Sunday, July 10, 3.30 p.m., under the auspices of Kono- 
hassett Lodge, A. F. and A. M. 

Order of Service 
Organ Prelude. Burgess C. Tower. 
Processional. Violin and Organ. 
Invocation. Quartette. 
Greetings of Konohassett Lodge. Merton L. Bosworth, 

Wor. Master of Konohassett Lodge. 
Introductory Address. Rev. Fred V. Stanley. 
Scripture Reading. Rev. Charles C. Wilson. 
Hymn 419. "America the Beautiful." 
Prayer. Rev. George A. Mark. 
Response. Quartette. 

"Hail to Our Native Land" (Verdi). Quartette. 
Violin and Organ. Selected. 
"Recessional" (DeKoven). Quartette. 
Address. Rev. Francis L. Beal, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D. of 

Peabody, Mass. 

''To Thee, Oh Country" (Eichberg). Quartette. 

Hymn. "America." 

Benediction. Rev. Fred V. Stanley, Chaplain of Konohassett 

Lodge. 
Recessional. Violin and Organ. 

(Violin by Julian C. Howe) 

MacDowell Quartette 
C. W. Ellis, Samuel B. Bates, L. V Banker, J. A. Avery. 



32 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

THE PAGEANT OF COHASSET 

Produced under the direction of 
Joseph Lindon Smith 

July eighth and eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-one 

The pageant was favored with an appropriate and 
beautiful setting. The audience were seated upon a hillside, 
sloping down to the shores of Little Harbor. The view 
comprised this beautiful sheet of water with its wooded 
shores and picturesque rocky headlands and islets. Except 
for occasional glimpses of dwellings among the foliage, the 
scene represented the Cohasset of primeval days. 

The stage, flanked by cedar trees, was formed upon a 
level spot at the water's edge, where boats could easily land. 
Close by was a rude fence with a pair of bars, and a log 
cabin with stockade, while at one side were several Indian 
wigwams and a rude stone fireplace. The orchestra and 
chorus were seated upon a little knoll at one side, upon 
which also was the rustic pavilion in which Cohasset was- 
to be enthroned. 

The action was entirely in pantomime. No spoken 
word was used except by the chronicler. The chorus served 
to interpret the episodes and thrilled the audience with 
old-time familiar music. There was very deep feeling 
manifested by all the participants, in the pageant, amount- 
ing almost to religious fervor. The orchestra played through- 
out the episodes and gave spirit to the various dances. 
At the close of the pageant, the audience rose and joined ia 
singing "The Star-Spangled Banner." 



COMMITTEES 

MUSIC COMMITTEE 

Donald T. Gammons, Chairman 

Mrs. Edward L. Stevens Walter Shuebruk Bessie L. Tower 
Manuel A. Grassie George Warren Bates Edwin T. Otis 

Samuel B. Bates Mrs. Russell B. Tower 



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COMMITTEE ON APPROACH TO GROUNDS 

George Jason, Chairvian 

Joseph Oliver 

SEATING AND CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE 

William H. McGaw, Henry B. Pennell, Chairmen 
Louis J. Morris Max H. Meyer A. Hyland 

John McClellan Joseph Donovan William Fitch 

James Henry W. T. Litchfield Abraham Enos 

Abraham J. Antoine Irving F. Sylvester Frank F. Martin, Jr. 
John H. \Vinters Frank E. Salvador 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

George F. Flecknoe, Chairman 
Stanley C. Whipple Max H, Meyer W. Howard Brown 

. POLICE COMMITTEE 
Eugene N. Tower, Chairman 
Sheldon N. Ripley John J. Grassie Harry S. Parker 

TICKET COMMITTEE 

Odin Towle, Chairman 

Kendall T. Bates 

PUBLICITY COMMITTEE 

George W. Collier, Chairman 
George Long W. Howard Brown Dorothy Nichols 

Dr. H. E. Fernald Arthur C. Morrison Sara E. Fox 
Stanley C. Whipple Mrs. Lester Harding George F. Flecknoe 
Agnes Valine 

CAST COMMITTEE 

Ralph W. Menard, Chairman 

William H. Morris Mrs. G. Churchill Elizabeth T. Nichols 

Eugene McSweeney Margaret B. Snow Mrs. Edward Ripley 

George B. Crafts Martha P. Bates Mrs. Howard Power 

COSTUME COMMITTEE 

Edith Pratt, Chairman 
Eleanor Eustis Mrs. F. E. Salvador Mrs. W. H. McGaw 

Mrs.Arthur Olmsted Mrs. W. B. Phillips Mrs. Marietta Lincoln 
Henrv B. Pennell Marion G. Pratt Mrs. Louis T.Merriam 

Airs. F. E. Taft 



34 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 



Oliver H. Howe 
Hugh Bancroft 
James Dean 
Alexander Rose 
John Falconer 
Walter B. Binnian 



FINANCE COMMITTEE 

Edward E. H. Souther, Chairman 

Mrs. W. C. Rogers Mary Sullivan 
Henrietta Valine Jenny Bates 

Mrs. Nina E. Lincoln Ruth G. Mealy 
Alice B. Cousens Charles H. Trott 

Mrs. Frank Sladen Roscoe H. Tisdale 
Mary E. Fleming 



PROGRAM SELLERS 
Mrs. Richard Pattee, Head 
Mrs. J.W. Tuckerman Mrs. Harold Cousens Kathleen McMahon 
Mrs. Louis Merriam Mrs. Stanley Whipple Muriel Crocker 
Mrs. Henry Williams Mrs.Gilman Churchill Eleanor Lewis 
Mrs. Howard Bartow Mrs. Lester Harding Martha Brown 
Mrs. Charles Bunting Mrs. George Melcher Mrs. Howard Power 



PAGEANT COMMITTEE 

Dorothy F. Bolles, Chairman 
Anastasia St. John, Secretary Oliver H. Howe, Treasurer 



Mrs. Oliver H. Howe Louvan Hyde 

Mrs. Edward Stevens Mrs. Ernest Howes 

Florence N. Bates Mary Salvador 

Mrs. Arthur Moors Joseph Oliver 

Mrs. Hugh Bancroft Thomas Stevens 

Mrs. J. F. McElwain Nicholas Simeone 
Roscoe H. Tisdale 



Joseph G. Enos 
Rev. Fred V. Stanley 
Rev. George A. Mark 
Rev. Charles C. Wilson 
Edward Nichols 
Ralph W. Menard 



MUSICAL PARTICIPANTS 



Mr. Donald T. Gammons 

Coyiductor 

Chorus and Orchestra 



William Howard 
Alfred W. Jones 
Horatio B. Tower 
Julian C, Howe 
Katherine C. Ellis 
Annie T. Collier 
Mrs. C. W. Gammons 



ORCHESTRA 

Burgess C. Tower 
Raymond Spaulding 
Daniel N. Tower 
Waldo F. Bates 
Mr. Leavitt 
Walter Shuebruk 
Ralph Stearns 
Mark Googins 



Russell B. Tower 

Lionel Bush 

Everett W. Gammons^ 

John Prouty 

Henry Merritt 

Mr. Story 

W. H. Swann 



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Alice B. Arthur 
Susan E. Arthur 
Eleanor T. Downes 
Frances Downes 
Charlotte B. Fox 
Annie N. Keene 
Ruth A. Keene 
Margaret B. Snow- 
Mary Salvador 
Mrs. Samuel B. Bates 
Mrs. John Bates 
Mrs. Dean K. James 
Mrs. Mary Ketchum 
Mrs. Marietta Lincoln 
Mrs. Nina E. Lincoln 
Mrs. Abbie J. Linnel! 
Mrs. Hannah Sladen 
Mrs. Myra Sprague 
Mrs. Walter Shuebruk 
George Warren Bates 
Edith C. Antoine 
Alice M. Brown 
Ruth J. Brown 
Clifton L Blossom 
Hope Bosworth 
Thelma Dusenberry 
Katherine Daley 
Mary Daley 
Elinor N. Duff 
Christine Claus 
Marion F. Curlev 



CHORUS 

Louanna Davies Louise Jason 

Emma J. Davis Grace W. Jason 

Minnie K. EllsworthElla B. Hillis 
Dorothy Enos Elinor F. Litchfield 

Hazel W. Flint Paul Ayers 

Anna AL Frates William P. Ayers 

Ellen Golden Allen W. Bates 

Mrs. Eugene N. Tower Christopher Atkinson 
Mrs. Russell B.Tower Walter \L Brown 
Darius W. Gilbert Howard N. Barnes 
Dean K. James John AL Coyne 



Arthur C. Morrison 
Frank E. Sladen 
Samuel B. Bates 
Hollis T. Gleason 
Carroll D. Dalev 
Ellis W. Gilbert 
Norman G. Grassie 
Hamilton Hagar 
George S. Jason 
Otis Jason 
Charles Jason 
Robert W. James 
Fred R. Maitland 
Carroll D. Pratt 
Louis Salvador 
Geraldine Gillis 
Grace G. Grassie 
Louise M. Grassie 
Edith M. Grassie 
Lillian L. Grassie 
Alice M. Hiltz 



Viola \L Lincoln 
Mary A. Monteiro 
Pauline Morris 
Lillian Morris 
Maizie McCulloch 
Annie A. McClellan 
Catherine McPhee 
Mildred G. Nelson 
\[. Vedella O'Brien 
Sarah S. Pratt 
Hylma E. Poole 
Helen G. Nawn 
Dorothy B. Sargent 
Louise B. Sylvester 
Gladys V. Sylvester 
Elinor B. Souther 
Rosilla Thayer 
Deborah Treat 
Grace C. Winters 
Pearl Wilson 



PIANISTS 



Mrs. Edward L. Stevens 



Mrs. John Bates 



Episode i 
MUSICAL PRELUDE 



*Sugs:esting the titanic forces of nature in bringing forth from chaos the rocky landscape 
which we now enjoy. 



36 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

Episode 2 

Entrance of Chronicler 

Eugene N. Tower 

Words of the Chronicler written by Rev. E. V'ictor Bigelow 

Men and women lapped in luxury, resting on green banks of ease, 
Listen to the toils of forbears, moil of cjrags and woods and leas. 
Where you lounge in lavished beauty, ages groaned to mould your 

town. 
Loving tribute to those ages will provide a comely crown. 

Granite rocks you undergird, in Vulcan's crucible were churned, 
Crystalizing with exactness patience and endurance learned. 
Bearing brunt of rough abrasion tooth of time and bite of frost, 
Ledges crumbling 'neath the sunbeams, wave-washed, in the sea 
were lost, 

Neath a glacial Juggernaut, Cohasset lay upon the road, 
Chafed and scored in helpless bondage, under its prodigious load. 
Long millenium of ice, an avalanche from Northern Steep, 
Gouging, grooving, pushed beyond Nantucket, melting in the deep. 

Halts the glacier breaking! Deep crevasses drop their sand and 

.clog, 
Tilting boulders catch on peaks, when icy carriers melt away. 
Mounds and terraces and dimpled plains the glacial gravel spreads; 
Coming yearly from the South, a timid vegetation treads. 

Sylvan slopes and grassy meadow making bird and beast a lair, 
Comes the red man's spear and arrow, hunting turkey, buck and 

bear. 
Great Algonquin! Noble Indian! Where your monuments of 

fame.^ 
Bits of stone a knife, a pestle, here and there a lingering name! 

Episode j 
INDIAN ENCAMPMENT 

In the left foreground a large wigwam had been erected. 
Grouped around it were squaws and Indian children. 
Several boys were bringing fagots from the woods. Young 
squaws with crooked sticks were digging for clams near 
the water's edge. In the left background several braves 
were erecting another wigwam. Others were at work on a 
dugout canoe. Two boys were fishing from a canoe a short 



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distance from the shore. A young brave started a fire 
before the wigwam, using bow and fire drill. A wrestling 
match was started among the younger boys. At one side 
sat three chiefs watching the scene with stoical calm. The 
boys in the canoe returned with fish which the squaws 
prepared to cook. The Indians were engaged in their quiet 
occupations on the shore as previously described, when 
suddenly cries were heard from scouts who had been posted 
on the headland overlooking the harbor. A strange boat 
was approaching. Instantly all were on the alert. The 
braves grasped bows and spears and moved swiftly down 
to the water's edge. The squaws and children, half curious, 
half frightened, huddled behind them. The boat containing 
John Smith and his sailors drew near. 



First Chief 
Second Chief 
Third Chief 



Henry F. Drews 
Frank Jvloore 

E. W. Wheelwright 
George W. Flint 
Thomas L. Grassie 
George A. Silvia 

F. Gordon Harriman 
Hugh Bancroft 



Mrs. George Wood 
Mrs. James Henry 



ABORIGINES 



RED MEN 
Fred C. Blossom 
Walter F. Chapman 
Harry Wilbur 
George Henry 
Harrison Henry 
Robert Mealy 
Royal A. Bates 
Carlos A. Tanger 



Frank F. Martin, Jr. 
James Henry 
Charles E. Jason 

George M. Ennice 
Ray M. Souther 
John H. Winters 
George E. Wood 
Albert J. Morris 
Charles Williams 
Louis J. Morris 



SQUAWS 
Mrs. George Ennice Lena Henry 
Helen Gillis Clara Ennice 

Airs. George Flint 



INDIAN GIRLS 

Grace Silvia Julia L. Lyons 

M. Rhody Atkinson Alice E. Enos 
Rosamond L. MorrisMarian Sullivan 
Lottie A. Flint Julia Henry 

Dorothy F. Smith Linda S. Stoddard 
Charlotte A. Morse Daisy White 



Mary M. Donovan 
Ada Dewson 
Belinda Dewson 
Adelaide Brown 
Jane Bancroft 



SQUAW BRIDE 
Julia C. McDonald 



38 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 



Lloyd C. Trott 
Merton Gilbert 
George Mapes 
Henry F. Howe 
Fred'R. Maitland 
Ellis W. Gilbert 
Edwin Parker 
George S. Jason 
Otis Jason 
James F. Wessman 
Louis Salvador 
Edward B. Gammon; 



INDIAN BOYS 

Hamilton Hagar 
Albert Hagar, Jr. 
Daniel Campbell 
Leland Towle 
Milton F. Higgins 
Mortimer S. Rose 
Harry W. Rose 
Elmer H. Pratt 
Charles H. Mapes 
Murray F. Perry 
George Crocker 
;Leonard Lawrence 



Philander Bates 
Wisner L. Litchfield 
George W. Bates 
Robert W. Perry 
H. H. Ellsworth, Jr. 
Herbert P. Bates 
Hugh Bancroft 
Ralph R. Jason 
Milton Ferrara 
Earle R. McArthur 
Ernest Jacoby 



Episode 4 

1614 
Entrance of Chronicler 

First of European strangers, Captain Smith alighted here; 
Shed the first blood of the natives, gave the cruel chill of fear. 
Brought the story of our harbor to his friends across the seas. 
Caught the name of Quonahassit which it evermore shall be. 

As the boat neared the shore John Smith and his men 
made signs of peace and friendliness. One of the sailors 
held up an empty water cask and made signs indicating 
that the party needed water. The Indians drew back a 
little, allowing the white men to land. Smith with several 
of his followers advanced to the chiefs and offered gifts. A 
short pow-wow was held. Smith made a speech, in pan- 
tomime, calculated to impress the redmen. The three chiefs 
in turn responded. The big chief called a group of thirty 
boys to entertain the guests. To the "tum-tum" music of 
drums, the Indian boys gave a dance, representing a hunting 
party stalking their prey, surrounding it, the kill and the 
joyful return to camp. 

In the meantime the water cask had been filled and 
returned to the boat. The children had swarmed about the 
boat, touching every object with eager curiosity. As Smith 
was preparing to leave one of the sailors, who had strolled 
near the wigwam where the squaws were gathered, reached 
out his hand to touch a string of polished shells which hung 
from the neck of one of the squaws. She drew back with a 



TOWN OF COHASSET 39 

startled scream, so suddenly that the string parted and the 
shells fell to the ground. Instantly the peaceful scene was 
thrown into confusion. With black looks and hostile mutter- 
ings, the redmen turned upon their white guests. John 
Smith drew his sword, faced the angry braves calmly and 
ordered a return to the boat. Without haste, turning now 
and again to face the close pressing redskins and threaten 
them with drawn sword and leveled muskets, the little 
party reached the boat, boarded it and pushed oflp from shore. 
Seeing that the white men were about to escape the savages 
rained a shower of arrows, spears and rocks about them. 
One of the sailors, pierced with an arrow, fell backward in 
the boat. Smith's men answered the attack of the savages 
with a discharge of muskets and several of the braves fell. 
The boat was rowed rapidly out of the harbor. 

Episode I\' closed with a suggestion of later local 
history. Parson Peter Hobart of Hingham appeared among 
the Indians and gathered them around him for missionary 
teaching. 

John Smith Edward E. H. Souther 

CREW 

Frank E. Salvador, Boatszvain 
Joseph A. Antoine Louis F. Figueirido Andrew Gerrie 
Frank E. Jason Manuel Figueirido Ralph B. Williams, Jr. 

Antoine Figueirido John Figueirido 

Episode 5 
Entrance of Chronicler 

Vengeful, bitter, felt the red men, against the bold intruding white; 
But a dominating sickness had bereft them of their might. 
Death had entered every wigwam, taking toll of all their braves, 
Smitten bodies of their warriors lay decaying in their graves. 

Pioneers from troubled England, found their freedom on our shore, 
Parson Hobart from old Hingham, and his friends of Cambridge, 

lore, 
Twenty-nine good English freemen in New Hingham drew their 

lots. 
In the shade of oak and pine trees, cleared their farms and built 

their cots. 




-Miss Dorothy F. Bo 



LLES 



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The frightful epidemic which afflicted the Indians 
early in the seventeenth century was represented by a 
dark mysterious female figure waving her arms and drapery 
in a menacing way, upon which the Indians silently dis- 
appeared. 

The main part of the episode represented the division 
of the lands among those pioneers who had elected to settle 
the shores of "Quonahassit"; and there appeared a group 
of men clad in the sombre Puritan garb with bell-crowned 
hats and suits of dull grey. 

Into the foreground the leaders strode after satisfactory 
inquiry of two sturdy lads who had preceded the group, 
carrying guns and observing carefully on all sides. 

The women, somewhat hesitant, with here and there a 
backward glance, as of regret for the old homes which they 
were leaving, some showing signs of fatigue, due to the 
long walk from Hingham, followed in a group. 

After looking about the harbor and across to the future 
site of the town, the leader, representing Ibrook Tower, 
produced a plan and the lots were drawn, using one of the 
high-crowned hats to hold the slips, one Thomas Andrews 
having the first choice. This was repeated by the others in 
turn, some with satisfaction, some apparently without. 
When the drawings were completed the leader rolled up 
his plan, made inquiry to be sure that all was regular and 
satisfactory; the women, who had been talking together or 
congratulating their menfolk who had been favored by the 
drawings, turned westward, and followed by the guards, 
the whole company passed from the scene. 

EARLY PIONEERS 
Rev. Peter Hobart . . . Rev. Linneas M. Bosworth 



Thomas Andrews . 
Jared Joy 
Ibrook Tower 
James Stoddard 
Noah Nichols 
Nathaniel Nichols 
Benjamin Beal 
Obadiah Beals 
Job Cushing 
Rev. John Brown . 



Harry F. Tilden 
Adolphus J. Landry 
Irving F. Sylvester 
C. Clifford Gammons 
Edward Nichols 
Thomas Bates 
Thomas Ayers 
Paul Tilden 
Charles T. Haven 
Thomas A. Stevens 



42 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

WIVES AND SISTERS 

Martha P. Bates Abby Keene Mrs. David Souther 

Mary G. Bates Isabel Pratt Celia R. St. John 

Grace E. Keene Mrs. Harry F. TildenMrs. Edward Nichols 

Hilda G. James 

Episode 6 

SEPARATION FROM HINGHAM 
Entrance of Chronicler 

Swarming settlers soon exhausting all the forage at Bare Cove, 

To the Conohasset marshes, every summer cattle drove. 

Sons and grandsons building homes here, fishing, farming, making 

gain, 
Far from Hingham, needs must build a meeting house upon the 

plain. 

Growing strong with farms and harbor, she was conscious of her 

power; 
Daughter fair of sturdy Hingham, Conohasset claimed her dower, 
Hindered still, but long enduring her reluctant mother's frown, 
in the year of seventeen seventy our Cohasset was a town. 

This episode marked the separation of Cohasset from 
Hingham in 1770 when Cohasset became an independent 
district. It was one of the most beautiful and impressive 
scenes of the pageant. 

Approaching from a distance came the child, Cohasset, 
gowned in a white robe with long blue mantle. She was 
leading by the hand her mother, Hingham, clothed ii^ a 
lavender gown with a mantle of deep purple. Following 
them came a group of men and women in Colonial costume, 
representing the citizens of Hingham. As they neared the 
stage, another group of people were seen coming to meet 
them from the opposite bank. These were the citizens of 
Cohasset coming to welcome their new leader. 

Cohasset hesitated, then turned to her mother for a 
last fond embrace and advanced to greet her new citizens. 
Hingham sadly returned, looking back frequently and reach- 
ing out her arms longingly to her beautiful daughter who 
was led away by the Cohasset people to become their ruler. 
As she ascended the steps to her throne, she turned and 
looking back across the fields toward Hingham, reached 



TOWN OF COHASSET 43 

out her arms in a last farewell to her mother, who was 
disappearing behind the hills. Then, seated on her lofty- 
throne, she watched the changes through which her town 
passed, down to the present time. 

HiNGHAM Mrs. Edward E. H. Souther 

CoHASSET Mercie V. Nichols 

CITIZENS OF HINGHAM AND COHASSET 
Rev. Nehemiah Hobart .... Rev. George A. Mark 
Louis I. Goodwin Alexander Rose Mrs. Paul T. Litchfield 

Mrs. Louis I. Goodwin Mrs. Alexander Rose Sheldon N. Ripley 
W. C. Rogers Z. Thaxter Lapham Marie Stanley 

Mrs. W. C. Rogers Helen Trott Anastasia St. John 

Mrs. J. H. Winters Paul T. Litchfield Richard W. Howe 

Episode 7 

THE SEA 

Entrance of Chronicler 

Seagulls, screaming o'er the harbor, called the youth to leave the 

loam. 
Plowing seas and bearing commerce, being brave to stem the foam, 
Captains they courageous, gallant, spreading sails in every zone, 
Some return with wealth of Indies, some repose where mermaids 

roam. 

White-winged fishing fleets all summer hooked the mackerel and 

cod. 
While the older men and maidens gleaned the harvest of the sod. 
Always some to keep the hearthstones, always some to follow 

dreams 
Out upon the endless ocean, where the beacon light gleams. 

The first scene of this episode represented an Incident 
referred to on page 532 of Cohasset Genealogies and Town 
History, In which young Southward Pratt, after driving 
the cows to pasture one morning and putting up the bars, 
was lured away by the nymph of the sea from the prosaic 
duties of the farm to the perilous and hence more interesting 
and exciting activities of a sailor's life. Returning after a 
two-years' voyage, he found the cows being driven home by 
young Mercy Gannett, who, although frightened at first by 
his appearance as a stranger, later became his wife. 



44 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

The second scene represented the return to their families 
of a number of Cohasset sea captains from long voyages. 
Salutations and congratulations were warm and hearty. 
The captains produced various gifts which they had brought 
from foreign parts and pointed to a group of merchants in 
oriental dress, from the Mediterranean and the Far East, 
who displayed rare fabrics and who had in charge boxes, 
casks and bales of goods. The captains also pointed out to 
each other upon a globe the pathways in different seas, 
which they had sailed. A group of fishermen and boatmen 
were called in to meet and congratulate the captains. 

The costumes in this episode were much admired and 
represented in a striking way the old-time elegance. Precious 
heirlooms were brought forth from old chests and garrets 
and fine old silks, shawls and laces were worn. All details 
were carefully studied, even to necklaces and breastpins. 

Among the characters, Capt. James Collier was repre- 
sented by his son, Edmund Pomeroy Collier, Capt. George 
\V. Collier by his nephew of the same name, while Capt. 
Philip Fox, noted for his record-sailing voyage across the 
Atlantic, was represented by his great-grandson and name- 
sake. (See chapter "Cohasset's Deep Sea Captains" by 
Edmund Pomeroy Collier in Cohasset Genealogies and Town 
History, pp. 532-588.) 

By the sudden lowering of a screen of evergreen trees, 
a vessel upon the stocks was disclosed, upon which ship 
carpenters were busily hammering, typifying the ship- 
building industry of former days in Cohasset. 

The episode closed with the dance of the Fair and Foul 
Weather Seas, which was one of the most graceful and 
beautiful features of the pageant. From a distance could 
be seen approaching over the grass, with their turquoise- 
colored draperies floating about them, the group of dancers 
portraying the Fair Weather Seas. They stretched in a 
waving line of blue and green across the field and made a 
spot of brilliant color as they formed in groups and danced 
on the shore at the bottom of the amphitheatre. The dance 
was undulating and wave-like in its movements and had 
reached its climax, when suddenly there sprang forth from 
amongst the trees a group of wild, dishevelled beings, whose 



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gray and purplish garments swirled about their heads. 
These were the Stormy Seas, at the sight of whose violent 
and menacing dancing and whirling, the other group sank 
to the ground, overcome b}' the stormy waves. After a time 
as the fury of the tempest was somewhat abated, the waves 
of blue and sunshine gained courage to dance once more and 
vanquished their enemies, who melted away on all sides, 
leaving the scene in possession of the Fair Weather Seas, 
waving and rippling with their filmy blue and green scarfs 
drifting around them. 

THE NYMPH OF THE SEA 
Miss Alice Bremer 

Southward Pratt Glover Bremer 

Mercie Gannett Miss Alice Bremer 



DEEP SEA CAPTAINS 



Capt. Ezra Towle 
Capt. George W. Collier 
Capt. James Collier 
Capt. Philip Fox 
Capt. Peter Pratt . 



WIVES 

Mrs. Peter Pratt .... 
Mrs. Philip Fox .... 
Mrs. John Jacob Lothrop 
Mrs. Ezra Towle .... 
Granddaughter of Capt. Ezra Towle 
Daughter of Capt. George Collier 
Cousins of Capt. Philip Fox 



FISHERMEN 

Capt. A. y. Antoine Joseph Valine 
Capt. M."P. Valine " 



Joseph St. John 
George W. Collier 
E. Pomeroy Collier 
Philip Fox 
Harold B. Cousens 



Miss Edith M. Bates 
Miss Sara E. Fox 
Mrs. Frank E. Salvador 
Marian G. Pratt 
Dorothy Hagar 
Jessie Bancroft 
Mary Donovan and 
Clara Stoddard 



William M. Martin 
Capt. Joseph S. Enos 



Caroll Daly 
Thomas Sylvia 
Laurence Poland 



Thomas Grassie 
Capt. J. W. Edwards 

BOAT BUILDERS 

Clarence Arnold Fred Higgins 

William Ellsworth Arthur O. Higgins 
Hudson Ellsworth 



MERCHANTS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE 

FAR EAST 
Nicholas Simeone Salvatore Signorelli Leonardo Merzzi 
Carl Fresina Pietro Poranello F. J. Morris 

Peter lamello Ralph Viola Ernest \'aline 



46 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

DANCE OF THE FAIR WEATHER SEAS 

Priscilla Gough Christine Tower Margaret Snow 

Julia Collier Marian Gillis Mrs. Odin Towle 

Mrs. C. C. Gammons Eleanor Mulcahy Evelyn Martell 

Mrs. A. E. Harding Dorothy Nichols Mrs. H. S. Thompson 

Dorothy James Margaret Winters Edith Pratt 

Christine Jacome 

DANCE OF THE FOUL WEATHER SEAS 

Marian James Alice Luce Elizabeth Bristol 

Emma Naun Eva McGaw Polly Thayer 

Marjorie Wilbur Anna McSweeney Alice Brown 

Agnes Valine Kathleen Madden Mary McPhee 

Marjorie Gillis Lillian Grassie Mildred O'Brien 

These dances composed by Mrs. Lilla Viles Wyman 

Episode 8 
Entrance of Chronicler 

Scarce the town with bold persistence local independence gained, 
When the Nation's Revolution all her war resources drained, 
Marched the Continental soldiers, marched the men of eighteen 

twelve, 
Marched the men to quell the rebellion, leaving wives to keep and 

delve. 

Other nations have we aided; Cuban troubles were assuaged, 
And the European carnage for democracy was waged. 
Men of peace, though oft embattled, may Cohasset always rear; 
Men of peace, whose gentle manhood flames of war can never sear. 

Heirs of all the troubled ages; harvesters of painful years. 
Reap with glad appreciation, what was sown for you in tears. 
Give the future all the power drawn for you from out the past; 
Confidence and loyal service, be your anchor holding fast. 

A COHASSET WEDDING 

This Cohasset wedding took place at a time when people 
went about the country either afoot or on horseback and 
when there was no hesitation in decking themselves in their 
gayest attire, even when a long walk or ride was ahead of 
them. 

The first guests to arrive came walking across the fields 
in groups of twos and threes; the men in knee breeches and 



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three-cornered hats and the women and girls making a 
pretty picture in their gay flowered silk overdresses with 
bright petticoats and with lace and flowers in their hair. x'\fter 
this came several arrivals on horseback, every horse carry- 
ing two persons, riding pillion fashion, the man in front with 
the girl behind him. Last of all, mounted in the same way, 
on a long-tailed white horse, the bride and groom rode down 
the hill from the woods. The groom "was dressed with a 
three-square cocked hat, white coat with black glass buttons, 
knee breeches with buckles, up to the fashion" (see "Narra- 
tive History of Cohasset," p. 243). Behind him sat his 
bride, her cream-colored silk dress looped up in the fashion 
of that day, while a little square of lace was on her lovely 
titian hair, which was coiled high on her head with a curl 
over one shoulder. 

After the bridal couple had been kissed and con- 
gratulated, the marriage register was brought out and 
signed by every one with a large quill pen. Dancing was 
then suggested and eight of the guests joined in a ring for 
a country dance. The scene became gay and lively as the 
dancers twisted in and out and around in the intricacies 
of the figures, some of which went by the quaint names of 
"Chase the Squirrel" and "Shoot the Owl." 

Three dusty, travel-stained young townsmen attracted 
every one's attention by their arrival. Great excitement 
was created when, as one of them lifted his cloak, large 
quantities of tea were seen to fall from the pockets. Cohasset 
has never been loath to do her share in the making of her 
country's history and these three men had the day before 
been participants in that historic event known as "The 
Boston Tea Party." 

Bride and Groom Mr. and Mrs. Lyxeham Crocker 

WEDDING GUESTS 

Mary Fleming Mrs. Frank Pegram William Morris 

Dorothy Thayer Mrs. Barbara OsgoodRichard W. Howe 

Alice Thayer Mrs. Gorham BrooksCarita Bigelo\v 

Mrs. Harry Parker Gorham Brooks Mrs. William Long 

DANCERS IN "THE RUNNING SET" 



48 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

COUNTRY DANCE 

Mrs.HollisT.Gleason Dorothy F. Belles William Long 
Mrs. Walter Binnian A. Ellis Harding Josiah Wheelwright 

Katherine Thacher Hollis T. Gleason 

THREE YOUNG MEN FROM BOSTON TEA PARTY 
Hollis T. Gleason Charles T. Hav^en Paul Tilden 

Persis Tower Florence N. Bates 

Resolution Tower Mary Bartow 

•These two women were notable characters in Cohasset's history. (See Narrative 
History pp. 306, and 290.) 

In 1775 a cargo of flour was secretly landed at Cohasset 
harbor and hauled overland in ox-carts to Washington's 
camp. (See "Narrative History," pp. 289-290.) 
Driver of the Oxen . . . . A. W. Pincon 

SOLDIERS OF EARLIER WARS 

Next came the successive appearance of men in the 
uniforms of the various wars in which Cohasset men were 
engaged. As each appeared, the orchestra played an air 
related to that period. 

Soldier of 1775 Eliot Stoddard 

Soldier of 1812 Henry B. Kennedy 

Soldier of 1861 Thomas Lothrop 

GROUP OF GREAT WAR VETERANS 

Members of George H. Mealy Post, No. 118 

American Legion 

The pageant closed with the appearance on the scene 
of three of our oldest citizens, followed by a group of 
children representing the Cohasset of the future. 

At this point all the participants in the pageant assem- 
bled on the stage and joined with the audience in singing 
the Star-Spangled Banner. 

OLD COHASSET 
Willie F. Thayer Edwin Bates Mrs. Mary Field 

YOUNG COHASSET 

Mary Thompson Corrie Urquhart Emma Monteiro 

Helena Thompson Nancy Millet Abigail Poland 

Constance Crocker Margaret Daley Julia Poland 

Virginia Ayres 



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